Author: Damon Young

Most of us struggle with distraction every day: the familiar feeling that our attention is not quite where it should be. We feel it at work and at ...

There is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the...

The curious reader’s companion to sex. ‘Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.’ Samuel Johnson Why is screwing so funny? How shoul...

A beautiful celebratory tribute to the powers of one of our most undervalued skills — an ideal gift for the avid reader. ‘What you are doing right...

Most of us struggle with distraction every day: the familiar feeling that our attention is not quite where it should be. We feel it at work and at ...

Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his ‘tho...